"So thank you Mr Dolce and thank you Lygon Street for my espresso and canoli, for my margherita and aperol spritz and for my feeling of safety and belonging." The unvarnished story of Little Italy, and what it can teach future Melburnians.

For the first time in more than a decade, the iconic Ashes urn will leave Lord’s Cricket Ground to feature in a new exhibition at State Library Victoria, and it will travel here in a business class seat.

The Archbishop of Melbourne says he would rather go to jail than report admissions of child sexual abuse made in the confessional, as Victoria seeks to bring religious leaders under mandatory reporting laws.

It was the local pool that was where I learnt to swim. Where I first started becoming Australian. And it was in those change rooms that I first glimpsed how desire could be an exile, writes award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas.